¹Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

¹In Samson je šel v Gazo in ondi videl nečistnico in je stopil noter k njej.

²The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will kill him.”

²In povedalo se je Gažanom: Samson je prišel semkaj! In ga obkolijo in strežejo nanj vso noč ob mestnih vratih in se dogovore, da bodo tiho vso noč, češ, zjutraj, ko zasvita, ga umorimo!

³Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

³In Samson leži do polnoči; opolnoči pa vstane in zagrabi obe durnici mestnih vrat z obema podbojema in ju vzdigne z zapahi vred ter si ju zadene na ramo in odnese na vrh gore, ki je pred Hebronom.

⁴It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

⁴Potem pa se zaljubi v ženo v dolini Soreku, ki ji je bilo ime Delila.

⁵The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

⁵In knezi Filistejcev pridejo k njej ter ji reko: Pregovori ga in zvedi, v čem ima takovo veliko moč in s čim bi ga premagali, da ga zvežemo in ponižamo, in damo ti vsak tisoč in sto srebrnikov.

⁶Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

⁶Tedaj reče Delila Samsonu: Povej mi, prosim, v čem imaš veliko moč svojo in s čim bi te bilo zvezati, da te ukrote?

⁷Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

⁷In Samson ji reče: Ako me zvežejo s sedmimi novimi vrvmi, ki še niso posušene, oslabim in bom kakor drugi ljudje.

⁸Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

⁸Nato ji prineso knezi Filistejcev sedem novih vrvi, ki se še niso posušile, in ona ga zveže ž njimi.

⁹Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

⁹V izbi pri njej pa so sedeli na preži. In ona mu reče: Filistejci nad te, Samson! On pa raztrga vrvi, kakor pretrga kdo nit iz preje, če se dotakne ognja. In se ni zvedelo, v čem je njegova moč.

¹⁰Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.”

¹⁰In Delila reče Samsonu: Glej, norčeval si se z menoj in si mi lagal! Sedaj pa mi povej, prosim, s čim naj bi bil zvezan.

¹¹He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

¹¹In ji odgovori: Ako me močno zvežejo z novimi vrvmi, ki se še niso rabile, oslabim in bodem kakor drugi ljudje.

¹²So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

¹²Vzame torej Delila nove vrvi in ga zveže ž njimi ter mu reče: Filistejci nad te, Samson! V izbi pa so sedeli na preži. On pa raztrga vezi s svojih rok kakor nit.

¹³Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.”

¹³In Delila reče Samsonu: Doslej si se norčeval z menoj in mi lagal! Povej mi, s čim naj bi bil zvezan. Odgovori ji: Ako spleteš sedem kit glave moje z osnutkom na vratilu.

¹⁴She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

¹⁴In ona jih pribije s klinom in mu veli: Filistejci nad te, Samson! On pa se prebudi iz spanja in izdere klin z osnutkom in vratilo.

¹⁵She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

¹⁵In ona mu reče: Kako smeš reči, da me ljubiš, ko vendar srce tvoje ni z menoj? Že trikrat si se norčeval z menoj in mi nisi povedal, v čem je tvoja velika moč.

¹⁶It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.

¹⁶In ko ga dan na dan nadleguje z besedami svojimi in ga pritiska, mu duša obnemore do smrti.

¹⁷He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

¹⁷Tedaj ji odkrije vse srce svoje in ji reče: Nikoli mi ni prišla britev na glavo, kajti posvečenec Božji sem od materinega telesa. Ko bi me obrili, me zapusti moč moja, da oslabim in bodem kakor katerikoli človek.

¹⁸When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

¹⁸In ko Delila vidi, da ji je razodel vse srce svoje, pošlje in pokliče kneze Filistejcev ter jim sporoči: Pridite še enkrat, zakaj razodel mi je vse srce svoje. Tedaj pridejo k njej knezi Filistejcev in prineso srebro s seboj.

¹⁹She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

¹⁹In ona ga uspi na krilu svojem in pokliče moža, ki odstriže sedem kit na glavi njegovi. In ona ga je prva obvladala, in moč njegova ga je zapustila.

²⁰She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

²⁰In mu reče: Filistejci nad te, Samson! In ko se prebudi iz spanja svojega, reče: Uidem, kakor sem čestokrat storil, in vsega se otresem! A ni vedel, da je GOSPOD odstopil od njega.

²¹The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

²¹Filistejci pa ga ujamejo in mu iztaknejo oči, in ga peljejo doli v Gazo ter ga zvežejo z bronastimi verigami; in je moral mleti v jetnišnici.

²²However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

²²Ali lasje na glavi so mu začeli rasti precej, ko je bil obrit.

²³The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”

²³In knezi Filistejcev so se zbrali, da opravijo veliko daritev svojemu bogu Dagonu in se vesele; kajti rekli so: Naš bog nam je dal v pest Samsona, sovražnika našega.

²⁴When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

²⁴In ko ga vidi ljudstvo, hvalijo boga svojega, kajti reko: Naš bog nam je dal v pest sovražnika našega, ki je našo deželo pustošil in mnogo naših pobil.

²⁵It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

²⁵In ko se jim srce razveseli, reko: Pokličite Samsona, da igra pred nami. Pokličejo torej Samsona iz ječe, in igral je pred njimi. In postavili so ga med stebri.

²⁶and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.”

²⁶In Samson veli dečku, ki ga je peljal za roko: Pusti me in daj, da otipam stebre, ki je na njih hiša postavljena, da se nanje naslonim.

²⁷Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

²⁷Hiša pa je bila polna mož in žen. Tudi vsi knezi Filistejcev so bili tam in na strehi tri tisoč mož in žen, ki so gledali, kako je Samson igral.

²⁸Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

²⁸Samson pa kliče h GOSPODU in reče: O Gospod Jehova, spomni se me, prosim, in mi vsaj le to pot daj moč, o Bog, da se enkrat maščujem nad Filistejci za obe očesi svoji!

²⁹Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

²⁹In prime za oba srednja stebra, ki se je nanju hiša opirala, in se upre ob nju, v enega s svojo desno in v drugega z levo roko svojo.

³⁰Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

³⁰In Samson reče: Naj umrjem s Filistejci! In se nagne z vso močjo svojo, in hiša se zruši na kneze in na vse ljudstvo, ki je bilo v njej. In bilo je več mrtvih, ki jih je ubil v smrti svoji, nego njih, ki jih je pobil v življenju svojem.In pridejo doli bratje njegovi in vsa družina očeta njegovega, in ga vzdignejo in odneso gori in ga pokopljejo med Zoro in Estaolom v grobišču Manoaha, očeta njegovega. In on je sodil Izraela dvajset let.

³¹Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

³¹In pridejo doli bratje njegovi in vsa družina očeta njegovega, in ga vzdignejo in odneso gori in ga pokopljejo med Zoro in Estaolom v grobišču Manoaha, očeta njegovega. In on je sodil Izraela dvajset let.